A Virginia federal judge on Wednesday ordered the release of a Georgetown University fellow that the Trump administration detained and initiated removal proceedings against while his habeas case is pending.
A California federal judge issued an injunction Wednesday in multiple cases challenging the Trump administration's termination of foreign students' F-1 visa records, rejecting the government's arguments that its recent policy change eliminates the likelihood students will be irreparably harmed, but he held off on deciding whether to grant nationwide relief.
The Canadian CEO of a cannabis agricultural equipment company claims federal authorities have again illegally denied him entry into the United States, despite the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's recent assurance it had revoked a previous removal order while seeking to dodge his lawsuit in Seattle federal court.
A D.C. federal judge suggested he might need more in an administrative record to decide whether to reinstate government-backed legal assistance programs for detained noncitizens after a late filing from the feds suggested congressionally appropriated funds would still go out but to different recipients.
A Maryland federal judge on Wednesday blocked the federal government from deporting two mothers detained in immigration holding cells in Baltimore pending their putative class action challenging the lawfulness of allegedly prolonged, inhumane and punitive detention conditions.
The Eighth Circuit has denied a Guatemalan national's attempt to reopen his removal proceedings after his child was born in the U.S., holding the Board of Immigration Appeals made no mistake in finding he failed to demonstrate eligibility for cancellation of removal.
Florida's attorney general has argued that he should not be held in contempt for telling law enforcement agencies he could not force them to comply with a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of a state law criminalizing the entry of unauthorized immigrants.
The Trump administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to lift a 3-week-old order temporarily prohibiting the government from removing a group of almost 200 alleged Venezuelan gang members currently detained in northern Texas to an El Salvador prison, citing new lower court rulings and a detention center protest.
Former Board of Immigration Appeals chair David Wetmore has joined Grossman Young & Hammond as senior counsel, returning to private practice after more than 16 years in government service handling immigration matters across the U.S. Department of Justice and the White House.
Indeed's Hiring Lab released a new report Tuesday showing a sharp decline in foreign interest in U.S. jobs, a phenomenon the job postings website said could be attributed to rising anti-immigrant rhetoric and recent shifts in immigration policy.